If you're a night owl, there are but few more hours to see The Royal National Theater's streaming Twelfth Night on their YouTube channel. There's not a member of that cast that doesn't do justice to Sir Laurence Olivier's stage. And wow is this a production (not just in set design/costumes etc) that proves how contemporary was Shakespeare! It's a strange and difficult play to pull off. The female casting of the male Malvolio(a) totally works. There always seem to be desperate sadnesses in Shakespeare's plays. Do we read too much into a contemporary Malvolio character? Don't think so. Is Shakespeare the greatest dramatist of dissecting cruelty and its polar opposite love in the same breath? Discuss.
Not feeling very funny today as the rain drizzles down and my mind paces up and down like a cat 'padding' on the sofa yet never able to settle. Can't seem to get Twelfth Night out of my head! The last time I saw this play must have been the Branagh film. Indeed a comedy but in the same way Ricky Gervais' comedy is deeply sad and painfully observant of reality.
All Arts is one of the best 'Time Out' compendium sites for what's streaming out their (sign up)
So I cherry pick and add some of my own:
May 3 (3-9pm) is a virtual Bang on a Can contemporary music festival, founded in 1987 New York.
New York City Ballet present their spring season from the achieves available to watch on-demand for 72 hours (3days)
Balanchine's Apollo, recorded on January 22, 2019, is currently streaming.
English National Ballet streams for 48h, and currently until Friday, Akram Khan's Dust
Soprano Jessye Norman, who passed away last October, celebrates the great Johannes Brahms in 1997-Live From Lincoln Center.
Extraordinary (that ought be ordinary) music making. Pinchas Zukerman: you must listen. If that Brahms chamber music isn't contemporary then, really, what is?! I would argue that: if you can't play a, one note, that truly means something, then, please: don't play any other notes. They will simply be noise!
Those who missed The Met Opera's Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) missed an amazing experience. Bizarre that this was the first ever staging at The Met. Proof that much of the bel canto repertoire is far from dinosaur relegation. (A 'thumbs up' for the two queen actresses, sorry. actors in the Thalia Theater's Mary Stuart (Schiller). I would never had seen your work if it hadn't been for Covid, the ironies of life. A Thalia production archive is uploaded everyday (for 24hours). All in German. Your Romeo and Juliet 'blew my mind', and that of Kitty the singing cat.
MoMA curator Sarah Meister and photographer Sally Mann have a live discussion: Dorothea Lange:
Words & Pictures (April 30, at 8:00 p.m. EDT), available on the MoMA site after the stream.
Alan Cumming's Legal Immigrant (Joe’s Pub Live! from the Archives) streams April 30; 8 p.m. Not sure for how long.
The Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin) have a limited virtual presence with Der Rosenkavalier (only available in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland until June 19).
Daniel Hope is a British-Irish classical violinist now based in Berlin who became the violinist of the world renowned Beaux Arts Trio in 2002 until the Trio’s final concerts in August 2008. During Corona he has been presenting and playing these wonderful, inspiring living room concerts with friends and guests.
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the last hope in her life and how she loses it
Kitty:
Read me the letter.
Stars in the House has raised over $250,000 for the Covid Actors Fund.
had we but cat enough and time..
